Hey mate, don’t need one of the Motorola’s, buy a second hand pixel, I’ve got a 6 and a 10 pro (soon to be converted to GOS now that there are stable builds since it’s my daily).

It’s a bit of a shock compared to stock android but you’ll actually feel like you own and control your phone again (like I do here on the pixel 6), but you’ll lose features like the scam block, hold for me etc. that the stock OS does).

The onus becomes on you to keep the device secure, you can do another user profile to install stuff you want separate and it works nicely. It’s all sandboxed and asks your consent before giving any permissions to an app, like android used to.

That’s a lot of words to say “this area needs reform”

Friends of mine complained they couldn’t watch stuff and I replied “huh, my Plex is working fine.”

Thank you kind sir. AliExpress has been lacking my funding too long.

I’m glad I still have shitloads of ESP8266s kicking around.

Which ESP32 boards do folks recommend lately? Too many options.

I’ll give it another try then! Last attempt it wouldn’t open.

I still use a stock pixel for work related and daily usage, but the alternatives I’ve found between F-Droid and Aurora store I’ve never felt lacking.

Maybe I’ll finish the switch fully in the coming months.

I did a fair amount of research before the switch to find alternatives to Google services, some I’ve replaced, others I felt were too much of a hassle for my phone usage.

I’ve kept my original pixel stock, the hardest part about switching this one over was plugging it in and following the instructions.

I’m hoping to get rid of my stock OS pixel soon, it would appear my bank hasn’t blocked it’s app on Graphene, unlike Uber.

For the rest I’ll either buy a cheap af shitbox to use purely for banking and Uber (if it comes to that).

If you’ve any other questions I’m happy to help find then answers with you, feel free to DM me.

Thanks for bringing this up, first I’ve heard of it. Not present on my GrapheneOS pixel, present on stock.

I suppose I should encourage pixel owners to switch from stock to graphene, I know which decide I rather spend time using. GrapheneOS one of course.

I still can’t decide if it’s end-stage capitalism or beggining-stage cyberpunk, or both.

New gen, same issues. Glad I jumped to AMD this build. No Nvidia product has been worth the cost:performance ratio for me since GTX10 series.

A weapon against sanity, yes.

Probably how they’ll force upgrade down the track, upgrade or we brick your shit.

It’s the only ring I’ve seen in years I would actually wear.

Everyone keeps forgetting that we’re all just what monkeys evolved into…

I thought I was imagining this until I put a 1080p episode on one monitor and a 1080p YT vid on another. The difference was night and day.

Similar story here tbh.

Most people can’t be trusted operating a ground-dwelling vehicle, I’m fine with not having flying ones yet.

Yeah, I member.

I’m taking a dual-boot route, it does have it’s issues. Unfortunately due to work related and gaming reasons I can’t let go of it just yet.

I went with Linux Mint and I’ve been happy as Larry since I got used to it. But distro hop until you find your fit I’d say, I had spare hardware I was distro-hopping with and Mint just fit me best I think.

You’re spot on with Ventoy, it’s a huge boon. I only recently became aware of it, absolutely love it already. I highly recommend giving it a go.

Awesome writeup, I’ll likely refer to it in future.